Perks Moderator’s Comments (group member since Jun 28, 2014)

Perks Moderator’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

A word about genres....

When you go to the book page on Goodreads, on the right hand side is "genres". The genres listed here are acceptable. So one book may be listed as "romance", "fiction" and "fantasy" and then it is up to you to work out which square works best for you.

As these genres aren't always the most reliable, if you think your book's genre isn't listed you can post it here for a ruling (I check how it is marketed by the publisher and listed at some libraries to determine genre)

Please welcome to new team member Emily

Please welcome new team member Rosina!

Hi Rosina, I have allocated you to Nightmare Before Christmas

Emilt, you're on Harry Potter!

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                                ~BINGO Mini Challenge~

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

◈ Books with a read date between February 14 - February 28, 2015 count
◈ As a team, get "BINGO" by reading books for five squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to create a line (there are 12 possible lines)
◈ Only one book per square
◈ For each line completed, your team receives a "BINGO Bonus" of being able to chose one card in any hand for the duration of the challenge (Feb 1 - April 30) that you can claim double points for
◈ Books used for BINGO do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ "Free Space" square means you can read any book
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 160 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 40,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Team spreadsheets have been updated with a BINGO tab so that you can track your books and claim your bingo lines



Notes
◈ Current Best Seller: We will accept any major best selling links, just provide the link with the book. A good website to use is http://www.bookdepository.com/bestsel...
◈ Colours on the cover need to be the predominant colour. If unsure you can post here for a ruling
◈ It is one book per square, but remember that lines overlap, so in total to cover all the bingo squares is 25 books

Hi Jingles, Rachel and Megan - Welcome! I have PM'd all team members so hopefully everyone will check in over the next day or so

Jingles & Rachel - I have just added your emails to the spreadsheet so you have edit rights and I have also invited you both to the captains group. Here's a tip for you... each team's spreadsheet link is posted in message 2 of their discussion thread so you can check out how each team is doing their tracking (everyone has a slightly different style)! ;)

We have created a new team, "Harry Potter" for our latest signups:

Anne
Jingles
Megan
Rachel
Tiina
Trisha

Please check in to your new team here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Welcome new team! All your books read since Feb 1 count. On the spreadsheet in the message above you will see your Feb hands.

Jingles and Rachel please send me your email address that you use to log into Google and I will give you edit rights for the spreadsheet

Team Harry Potter Spreadsheet

Team Harry Potter




Team Members:
Jingles (captain)
Megan
Rachel (co-captain)
Emily
Pratyusha

Thanks ok Tiina. :)

Unfortunately Dymond has had to remove herself from the challenge. Please welcome replacement player Stormie to your team!

Thanks Dymond. I'll remove you from the team and invite Stormie to join them

Update

I don't have places yet for:
Anne
Megan
Stormie
Trisha

But as we see how the first week goes we may have some places open up, OR, if we get more signups we may get enough players to make a new team (in which case any books you have read since Feb 1 will count)

It's time for February! Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Total for Feb: 77

IT'S A PERKS ALPHABET READ-A-THON

As a group let's see what we can read in the month of January and have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!

How this works...

* Each book needs to follow the alphabet from the last one posted

* The Alphabet letter can be based on by genre, author, title, character names, narrator etc.

* As soon as you have a book that you have read in February 2015 that can connect to the last one, post it with the reasons it follows the alphabet and the running tally for you, and for the group for the month, and let's see how many books we can read and connect in the month!

EXAMPLE

Post 1:
Kristie posts:
A
Artemis Fowl (Title)


Kristie's tally - 1 book
Perks Group tally - 1 book

Post 2:
Karen Posts
B
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris (character Bobo Winthrop)


Karen's tally: 1 book
Perks group tally: 2 books

Post 3:
Kristie posts:
C
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (title and author)


Kirstie's tally: 2 books
Perks group tally: 3 books

.... hopefully you get the idea....

NOTE: You can read any book of any length, children's books and graphic novels also count. Please just remember to check the tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post

Books need to be marked as "read" between February 1 and February 28, 2015. (It doesn't matter when you started)

I've had a question about characters, and if they need to be "main" characters to count.

Minor characters are ok provided they have some meaning/dialogue to the story ... e.g. not just a passing reference to "I once had a cat named Oscar"...

NancyHelen wrote: "I hope I understand how this works - so if I say I can do both of the 4s in the second hand (I'll read Broken Harbour by Tana French and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn)..."

It is up to each team how you want to plan, but by the end of the month you need to make sure you have hands completed in order.
E.g. you complete hands 1,2,3,5 and part of hand 4. By the end of the month if you haven't completed hand 4, you only get points for hands 1,2,3 and part of hand 4 (and nothing for hand 5)